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Catalyst 6000 Family Content Switching Module Installation and Configuration Note
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
The CSM provides these enhanced features:
• More than one CSM can run in a Catalyst 6000 family switch chassis, and CSMs can run
concurrently with Cisco IOS server load balancing (SLB).
• CSM fault-tolerance support allows two CSM modules (in the same or in different chassis) to be
configured in the active and standby modes.
• The sticky database and connection table also can be replicated from active to standby to minimize
any service disruption.
• CSM firewall load balancing allows you to scale firewall protection.
• A configurable pending-connection timeout feature is available. Pending-connection timeout sets
the response time for terminating connections if a switch is flooded with traffic. This feature is used
to prevent denial of service (DOS) attacks. Pending connections are configurable on a per virtual
server basis.
• The CSM supports 255 VLANs.
• The minimum time between health probes has been reduced to two seconds.
Table 1-1 lists the available CSM features.
Table 1-1 CSM Feature Set Description
Features
Supported Hardware
Supervisor 1A with MSFC and PFC
Supervisor 2
Supported Protocols
TCP load balancing
UDP and all common IP protocol load balancing
Support for FTP and the Real Time Streaming
Protocol (RTSP)
Layer 7 Functionality
Full regular expression matching
URL and cookie switching
Generic header parsing
Miscellaneous Functionality
Multiple CSMs in a chassis
CSM and IOS-SLB functioning simultaneously in a
chassis
HTTP 1.1 persistence (all GETs to the same server)
Full HTTP 1.1 persistence (GETs balanced to
multiple servers)
Fully configurable NAT
Server initiated connections
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